Check-row planter



(No Model.)

G AMBS CHECK ROW PLANTEIL;

No. 487,506. Patented Dec. 6, 1892.

GEORGE AMES, OF GREEN RIDGE, MISSOURI.

CHECK-ROW PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,506, dated December 6, 1892.

Application filed $eptember 21, 1892. Serial No. 446,404. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE AMEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Green Ridge, in the county of Pettis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Row Planters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in check-row planters of that class employing walking wheels; and my object is to provide an improved device of this character.

To this end and to such others as the invention may pertain, the invention consists in the machine and parts thereof constructed and combined substantially as hereinafter specified, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whicl1- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a corn-planter with my invention applied. Fig. 2 and 3 are detail views, which will be more particularly hereinafter referred to.

My present invention in some general respects is similar to the one for which Letters Patent No. 412,357 were issued to me October 8, 1889, and it is, in fact, designed as an improvement thereon.

With the structure of the seed-dropping mechanism my invention has nothing to do, and I simply show the seed-boxes A A and a portion of the supporting-frame in order to clearly illustrate my invention as applied thereto.

Mounted on the frame just in advance of the cross-bar B, which supports at its ends seed-boxes A A, is a vertical tubular standard C, in which extends one of the vertical members of a U-shaped bar D. A screw 01, tapped through the standard, holds said bar D vertically adjustable therein. Pivoted to the other vertical member of the bar D is a lever E, whose lower end has a horizontal bifurcated or forked extension e, that engages a vertical pin at the center of the seed-slideconnecting rod F. The upper end of said lever carries a short pivoted bar e, whose op posite ends are connected to horizontallymovable arms F, that are 'journaled on the vertical pivot G, mounted each on a box A; also mounted on each pivot G is an arm 11, that is connected by a rod h with the adja cent arm F, and carries at its outer end a roller 71/, that is in the path of the radial rod or arm 2', secured to one of the spokes of the walking wheel I. The spoke to which said arm 2' is secured has its outer end widened or made paddle-shaped to constitute of it a marker. The arms F and H are made vertically adjustable upon the pivot G in order to change the distance of the roller-carrying end of the arm H relative to the center of the wheel I, and thus vary the amount of stroke of said arms. Collars g g are placed on the pivot above and below said arms to hold them in the position desired.

Each pivot G is made laterally adjustable on an arm J, that is mounted on abracket K, bolted to the inner side of the seed-box, and said arm J is also adjustable forward and backward on said bracket.

The throw of the leverE is made adjustable V by the provision of several holes, any one of which may be made the pivot-hole, and the connection between said lever and each of the arms F is made adjustable by the employment of two rods ZZ, each of which carries at its free end a lug or block Z, through which the other passes, and one of said blocks having a screw Z for securing the rods at the desired adjustment.

The walking wheels are mounted on the opposite ends of a shaft M, that is journaled in boxes m m, which are attached to the rear side of the frame-bar B. In order to have the wheels act alternately to vibrate the lever E, the radial bar L of one wheel is placed diametrically opposite that of the other.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a check-row planter, in combination with the wheel, the arm adapted to be engaged thereby, the pivot journaling said arm, the second arm also on said pivot and connected to the former, and the collars on the pivot above and below said arms, substantially as specified.

2. In a check-row planter, in combination,

the seed-boxes, the lever pivoted between them and connected with the seed-delivering devices, the wheel, the pivoted arm adapted to be actuated thereby, and the two rods be- 5 tween said lever and said arm, having each a block or lug through which the other passes, substantially as described.

3. In a check-row planter, in combination with the vibratory levers, the mechanism con- 10 nected to each side thereof, the U-shaped bar to one of whose arms said lever is pivoted, and the standard to which the other arm is adjustably attached, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in :5 presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE AMES. Witnesses:

MARTIN V. B. PAIGE, JOSEPH S. VAUGHAN. 

